Wednesday, January 31, 2024

My New Website!

 



Hello Everyone!

Today I'm announcing the launch of my new website, Rain Frances Creations! I've been working very hard the last few months to get this website built and created and I got 'er done!

Thursday Art and Dinner Date will now be hosted there so please update your bookmarks, your blog-readers and sidebars!

I have a three-minute video describing what I'm offering on the website, if you'd like to watch it, here's the link: Rain Frances Creations Website Launch!

Thanks to Nicole for letting me know that comments were not working, I fixed it! Friends, if you notice any glitches on the new site, would you let me know either by email or commenting here? I tested the heck out of the site, but sometimes things get missed! Thank you!!

See you on the new blog! πŸ’–




Thursday, January 25, 2024

πŸŽ¨πŸ˜‹ Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Clocks



Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Clocks! Tweety is doing his best to imitate a Cuckoo! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it!
 
I am hoping to host next week's TADD (and all future posts) on my new website! I've been building it for nearly a month straight, what a learning curve! Stay tuned!


That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic πŸŽ¨ and πŸ˜‹ delicious πŸ˜‹ creations! See you soon!!! πŸ’— 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!

Feb 01:    Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! πŸ˜‹

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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Thursday, January 18, 2024

πŸŽ¨πŸ˜‹ Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Matches πŸ”₯ πŸ”₯



Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Matches! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs seems a little down and out as he lights one his "Strike Anywhere" matches...must have been a dame! πŸ˜Š I drew this with charcoals. "We don't need no stinkin' matches!" - that's my silly sense of humour, anyone get it? 

 

I have nothing for our dinner date! I'm on an elimination diet to figure out what's up with my intestinal health. But I did manage to draw this striking match with pastels. I made the corners fancy with Photoshop! πŸ˜ŠπŸ˜Š



This is a great scene from the movie "For A Few Dollars More", directed by Sergio Leone. A "Spaghetti Western" because it was filmed in Italy. In this scene Lee Van Cleef strikes a match on one of the villains, played by Klaus Kinski. He lights his match on the guy's hunchback, stirring up trouble in the old Italian West! 


That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic πŸŽ¨ and πŸ˜‹ delicious πŸ˜‹ creations! See you soon!!! πŸ’— 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!


Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! πŸ˜‹

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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Thursday, January 11, 2024

πŸŽ¨πŸ˜‹ Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Coffee Shop

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊


🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is Coffee Shop! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs and I dream of a vacation in Paris right now, enjoying a cafΓ© lattΓ© and people watching. Instead, I took the opportunity to try to recreate Van Gogh's "CafΓ© Terrace at Night".                I have no new videos to share, not even any foodie photos! I've become so busy again, back to the books for the next 6 months!! What are you up to my friends?


That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic πŸŽ¨ and πŸ˜‹ delicious πŸ˜‹ creations! See you soon!!! πŸ’— 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!

Jan 18: Matches
Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! πŸ˜‹

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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Thursday, January 4, 2024

πŸŽ¨πŸ˜‹ Thursday Art and Dinner Date: Dance!

Welcome my Friends, to Thursday's Art and Dinner Date! 😊😊

🎨For our 🎨 Art Date 🎨, today's optional prompt is DANCE! Please feel free to share any art you've created, we would love to see it! Bugs Bunny is rockin' his track suit and doing a little break dancing! He makes the "handstand freeze" look easy! To be accurate, the style is called "breaking" or "b-boying".



I'm turning the clock back 40 years (yikes)...I went to Break Dance '84 with my friends. I was 16 and hung out with the breaking troop Mystic Crew. They competed in this and I think they won 3rd prize. It was SO MUCH FUN to watch these guys and gals breaking, spinning, freezing and popping! It's a very athletic and acrobatic dance style.


Here is my "Breaking Silhouette" painted with acrylics

I was very much into dancing in the 80's. I knew the "Thriller" dance by heart! I could also moonwalk. My friend Bertram from the Mystic Crew taught me the "arm wave", the "robot" and the "electric boogaloo", but I could never master the moves where you had to rely on arm strength. Weak wrists!!!

 

Time for a snack after all of that dancing. For our πŸ˜‹ Dinner Date!! πŸ˜‹ I made a very comforting and healthy Lentil Soup with Spinach. Click on the link for the written recipe and see below for the video recipe!


Jack and Raven


We got a little bit of snow on New Year's Eve but it's pretty much melted already. It feels like spring here in the Maritimes and I have to say I'm not hating it!



I'll be visiting your blogs this week my friends, I want to catch up on the TADD posts I've missed! And I want to thank those who sent me lovely holiday cards...it always warms my heart πŸ’što receive snaily mail! 🐌

Here are my latest videos:





⬆️⬆️ For Rain Frances Art For Kids : How To Draw A Seal


⬆️⬆️ For Rain's Kitchen and Garden : How To Make Lentil Soup With Spinach


⬆️⬆️ On my channel, Spiritual Rain, my latest "Bedtime Stories Podcast" features me reading the fairy tale The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds


That's all for now folks! Please check out the link widget below for more 🎨 artistic πŸŽ¨ and πŸ˜‹ delicious πŸ˜‹ creations! See you soon!!! πŸ’— 

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Upcoming Art Prompts For Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date:  (Prompts are optional!) Click on the link for inspirational images!

Jan 11: Coffee Shop
Jan 18: Matches
Jan 25: Clocks

Feb 01: Candles
Feb 08: Far Away
Feb 15: Lips
Feb 22: Ladders
Feb 29: Eggs

This art and dinner date date is all about creating. For the art date, you can showcase your paintings, drawings, photography, sculpting, poetry...whatever you like! You can follow the weekly themes or post any art you like! 🎨

And for the dinner date, please feel free to link up your foodie post! πŸ˜‹

Don't forget to add the URL link to your post (not your blog) to the link gadget below to share your wonderful creations! Please revisit to make sure you don't miss those who join in a little late! All spam and non-related links will be removed! The link gadget will be available until the following Sunday at midnight!

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